The messages from Christipher Hitchens, unlike those of any religious text, were clear, unambiguous, and intelligible. No need to "interpret" or have to be "clarified" but any a chosen messenger from the supernatural to convey the meaning. He did not, and could not, call for violence against those who disagreed. He sought to bring people to discuss the basic issues facing mankind in a logical and reasonable light. His debates were to this end, and he invariably proved his point.
the hitch is dead. long live the hitch. we are all dirt beneath the man's shoes and our species is going to sorely miss him. the world may not have been a better place with him but it will be a much worse place without him. a million theists typing on a millon typewriters for a million years couldn't come within a million miles of this guy. his farts have more eloquence and relevance than any religious text i hope god has the balls to stand up to the holy hitch-slap he's about to receive
I raise my glass and salute a great man. It is a sad loss to humanity. We need many, many more with his vision, his passion, his wit, his intelligence, his courage and his understanding.
Our world was a better place for having him in it, in my opinion. May his legacy continue to have as profound an effect.
@rahotep101 "I wouldn't mind people saying 'rest in peace' ...It is a customary expression of respect for someone who has died, not a credo" Well you're wrong about that. It comes from the Catholic theology of Purgatory. It is a simple prayer that he will pass thru Purgatory quickly and on into heaven. My hope is for him to truly rest in peace. He was a decent man for being an atheist. He IS a loss especially since he didn't come to grips with God that we know of. Maybe he repented secretly.
'Rest in peace' is one of those phrases that are divorced from its original meaning, like 'For Christ's Sake', 'By Jove', 'Thank God', 'Wednesday' & 'Damn!'. I wouldn't mind people saying 'rest in peace' if I was dead, even though I am fully aware that the dead are not in any sense 'resting'. It is a customary expression of respect for someone who has died, not a credo. I don't think there is any reason to not use common phrases just because they were formerly loaded with religious connotations.
@dwoods828 Why did you even bother to comment here? You said nothing relevant to the video, just came on to insult atheists on a video about someones' death.
@dwoods828 So you actually think that God the Father looked down from heaven and stotted a babe named Mary and decided to split himself in 2 and then send the new Holy Spirit part of himself down to have sex with her. Mary got knocked up and gave birth to God's son Jesus who is also God. How could anyone come up with that garbage?
I have to respectfully disagree. He is resting. In place. And as to whether it will remain peaceful is yet to be seen depending on environmental influences. DeVinci rested in peace for almost 100 years, then there was a war on and they took the lead lining from his coffin and threw his bones all over the court yard, and wild dogs carried them off.
@Elenkhos He doesn't exist any more. The name Christopher Hitchens refers to the person, there is no more person, there is only his body, which because it doesn't work now is no longer him.
I had the same reaction when I read Youtube commentators saying "RIP Hitchens". But it's just an expression people naturally use without thinking about it. I sometimes say "oh my God" by reflex although I'm an atheist, but I do try to avoid it, and I do realize these kinds of common expressions don't help the eradication of superstition and religion.
@Wotanraven There is a difference though, saying "oh my god" is a reflex. Nobody should react to news like this with an unthinking reflex. If you have time to reflect on your response, and you should make time, you have time to avoid saying something so profoundly inappropriate.
@dwoods828 this coming from a man who believes in imaginary gods and angels the level of your stupidity surpasses even the very book you think is the word of god.
@TheHemsworthboy I think atheists don’t think. I don’t think they think at all. I think if they thought to think they wouldn’t think the thoughts they think.
They must be not thinking pretty hard and staying up late at night not thinking because to some of this stuff simply defies reality.
I’m thinking that, somewhere, there is a atheist Not Think tank where atheists sit about all day, not thinking, and then send out random lack of thinking marching orders.
@dwoods828 You're such a poet. I'm going to seek out, let's say five fence-sitting theists and make it my life's work to make them see the godless truth through the theocratic haze, dwoods828, and I'm going to credit you as my inspiration. You venomous troll.
@dwoods828 I don't feel like tolerating theist bullshit today you religitard cunt. Fuck you and fuck that monster you worship. You're not hurting Hitchens' feelings. His great mind is no more and the cancer addled meatsack that carried that mind is on a gurney in a Houston hospital or morgue. Who you hurt, you vile brown-noser of invisible judges, is the people, still living, who this man meant something to. Good for you - you and those like you have redoubled my hatred for religion.
@DMSProduktions i would struggle to describe him with how many letters i can write in a youtube comment you would be better of researching him on a neutral website, wikipedia would be a good place to start.
@TheHemsworthboy That doesn't answer my question! A few words like ' he did such and such' would have been enuff. I wasn't after a complete dissertation on the man!
@DMSProduktions Your question does not deserve an answer. If you can't be arsed to do the most basic bit of research such as pasting the name into Google you're just trolling, and to do so about a man who has just died is tasteless in the extreme.
@DMSProduktions The point stands, it should be clear from the context that Christopher Hitchens was important to me and I assume to many other people too. After his death was announced to ask baldly who is he (present tense) is likely to be taken to be tasteless. If you had wanted to avoid offending people you should have either researched first, it only takes seconds these days, or at the very least made some concession to admit that you are embarrassed not to know.
@DMSProduktions He was one of the Four Horsemen, one of the most influential public atheists, leader of the new atheists, the finest mass debater of the age. He was a master baiter of the theologically infected. A man of wit and a coiner of bon mots of the same class as Oscar Wilde. He had the brain, heart and liver of a journalist, he was employed as a columnist and he found fame as an essayist, pamphleteer and shit stirrer. He took on Saddam Hussein, Kissinger, Mother Theresa and God. And won.
There is no judging Christ, therefore Chris is resting peacefully no doubt. There is however an afterlife alright, but it's completely unrelated to the religions we've created for comfort. Life goes on without a body, the mind/spirit survives, so there really is no death. Death/dead is just a word, it's basically meaningless, so Chris is still with us watching.
@MartinJWillett Well said. The only existence after death is in the memories of the living. In that respect, Hitch will be with us for as long as people read his books. Of all modern writers, Christopher Hitchens deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with Plato.
@SissingPyd He's still with many people who saw and heard enough of him to imagine him. He's with me right now, patiently helping me with my words, quietly annoyed at my slow typing speed. I don't mean that in any way he is still here just that I can imagine him, he can still narrate his words to me, and sometimes he will even deign to read out some of mine. He's been doing that for me for about two years now, being dead won't change that.
A man not easily replaced or succeeded...and someone I will dearly miss. His keen wit and intellect were a beacon in a sea of ignorance and stupidity.
I don't "relish" anyone damned to eternal separation from God...You should wise up and quit worshiping his beliefs...He IS NOT resting in peace if he did not accept Christ prior to death...
@dwoods828" Worshiping his beliefs" nobody worshiped Hitchens, why do you theists think that an opposite view to yours is some how a faith based religion ? is it the only way you can define the world around you, that because you base everything on faith and worship so does everyone else.
Hitchens unlike religion based his beliefs not on faith but on present facts available to him.
Why would he accept a "God" when he spent his life arguing against the silly idea of a god existing.
@dwoods828 Nice to see some of that christian love at work, You are the fool and the reason why Christopher Hitchens spoke out against religion, your not enlightened just filled with hate and fear, and that is all religion is based on fear, and hatred of those who see it for what it is a CON !!!!!
His body might have shut down, and his mind is missing from the universe but that doesn't stop us from carrying on his message. A message i feel is vital for the survival of our species, christians and muslims have their prophets but this was a man who was no prophet, but brought a message to this planet greater than any supposed son or messenger of god, like carl sagan and charles darwin before him an intellectual giant among men.
Indeed. Seldom has a person died like this, at the height of his game, with the world watching and waiting for him to show weakness.
Ah well, must go, I have a life to live. I am glad I read his last (?) book Hitch 22 before his death. I am not very good on having dead heroes, but life has a way of ensuring that we all get to play that game eventually. At least I don't revel in it like so many do.
Mr. Hitchens is not looking down on us from "heaven", or "roasting in hell" for his disbelief. His body, his fierce pitbull of an intellect are no more. However, his writings, the videos he's been featured in, the difference he made on this planet live on. The world is a little bit safer for the non-believer because of the efforts he made - and the abuse he took. Cheers to your memory, Hitch. Thanks Martin.
@MsMommaRose I came back here to reply to your kind words and got caught up attacking trolls. Hitchens was very inspirational tome. The world has lost a great mind.
@GrainSandful well u would have to be living under a rock if u didn't know Hitch didn't believe in an afterlife or a b4 life, to say RIP is to say he exist elsewhere resting peacefully!!!!!! what else could it mean?
Hehehe this is the sort of thing Hitchens would have appreciated
Laughingblades 1 month ago
The messages from Christipher Hitchens, unlike those of any religious text, were clear, unambiguous, and intelligible. No need to "interpret" or have to be "clarified" but any a chosen messenger from the supernatural to convey the meaning. He did not, and could not, call for violence against those who disagreed. He sought to bring people to discuss the basic issues facing mankind in a logical and reasonable light. His debates were to this end, and he invariably proved his point.
grahambkk 2 months ago
Yes, I'm saddened to see such a fine mind extinguished. He will be missed.
mydogbanjo 2 months ago
the hitch is dead. long live the hitch. we are all dirt beneath the man's shoes and our species is going to sorely miss him. the world may not have been a better place with him but it will be a much worse place without him. a million theists typing on a millon typewriters for a million years couldn't come within a million miles of this guy. his farts have more eloquence and relevance than any religious text i hope god has the balls to stand up to the holy hitch-slap he's about to receive
PvtChuff 2 months ago
@reclaimerReclaimer Piss off. Thanks.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
I raise my glass and salute a great man. It is a sad loss to humanity. We need many, many more with his vision, his passion, his wit, his intelligence, his courage and his understanding.
Our world was a better place for having him in it, in my opinion. May his legacy continue to have as profound an effect.
RoadRunnerLaser 2 months ago
I was so upset when I heard he died. An amazing man is missing from the world.
Zarsthor 2 months ago 5
and so ...one of the great lights of our time is gone and the world is a poorer place for it .
woodenmajor 2 months ago 2
@sharaIantam Arai'fic l'ac tizi!
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
this is exactly what Christopher Hitchens would have said
spareld 2 months ago
@rahotep101 "I wouldn't mind people saying 'rest in peace' ...It is a customary expression of respect for someone who has died, not a credo" Well you're wrong about that. It comes from the Catholic theology of Purgatory. It is a simple prayer that he will pass thru Purgatory quickly and on into heaven. My hope is for him to truly rest in peace. He was a decent man for being an atheist. He IS a loss especially since he didn't come to grips with God that we know of. Maybe he repented secretly.
MaximusArurealius 2 months ago
@MaximusArurealius I know the origin, but it has lost its original meaning.
rahotep101 2 months ago
@rahotep101 Tell that to a Catholic priest.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
@MartinJWillett The last I heard the Pope abolished purgatory anyway.
rahotep101 2 months ago
If anybody asks me where I'll go when I die, I'll tell them 'In the ground'.
Christopher Hitcthens will be sorely missed.
abjectreality 2 months ago
'Rest in peace' is one of those phrases that are divorced from its original meaning, like 'For Christ's Sake', 'By Jove', 'Thank God', 'Wednesday' & 'Damn!'. I wouldn't mind people saying 'rest in peace' if I was dead, even though I am fully aware that the dead are not in any sense 'resting'. It is a customary expression of respect for someone who has died, not a credo. I don't think there is any reason to not use common phrases just because they were formerly loaded with religious connotations.
rahotep101 2 months ago
@dwoods828 Why did you even bother to comment here? You said nothing relevant to the video, just came on to insult atheists on a video about someones' death.
PixelSlayer247 2 months ago
i never liked the guy to begin with.
MsReefmaster 2 months ago
oh, that was sudden, i am so sorry.
aaugoaa 2 months ago
of course he is resting in peace, he's getting his head showered from all the religious fuckwits on this planet
DVDFRedshadow 2 months ago
Jonnie Walker, Black Label: The breakfast of Champions. ~ Christopher Hitchens.
leffehoegaarden 2 months ago
Ow that was your meme, I forgot where I first heard it. Well today is a sad day for us. I will remember.
MexxPowers 2 months ago
@dwoods828 So you actually think that God the Father looked down from heaven and stotted a babe named Mary and decided to split himself in 2 and then send the new Holy Spirit part of himself down to have sex with her. Mary got knocked up and gave birth to God's son Jesus who is also God. How could anyone come up with that garbage?
bucksmasher1 2 months ago
I have to respectfully disagree. He is resting. In place. And as to whether it will remain peaceful is yet to be seen depending on environmental influences. DeVinci rested in peace for almost 100 years, then there was a war on and they took the lead lining from his coffin and threw his bones all over the court yard, and wild dogs carried them off.
Elenkhos 2 months ago
@Elenkhos He doesn't exist any more. The name Christopher Hitchens refers to the person, there is no more person, there is only his body, which because it doesn't work now is no longer him.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
Damn...I didn't know that. What a shame.
At least we still have his brother....
We're gonna miss you buddy.
Illumirage 2 months ago
I had the same reaction when I read Youtube commentators saying "RIP Hitchens". But it's just an expression people naturally use without thinking about it. I sometimes say "oh my God" by reflex although I'm an atheist, but I do try to avoid it, and I do realize these kinds of common expressions don't help the eradication of superstition and religion.
Wotanraven 2 months ago
@Wotanraven There is a difference though, saying "oh my god" is a reflex. Nobody should react to news like this with an unthinking reflex. If you have time to reflect on your response, and you should make time, you have time to avoid saying something so profoundly inappropriate.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
Hitch had a lot of friends. None of them were invisible.
bucksmasher1 2 months ago 6
Another fool bites the dust!
dwoods828 2 months ago
@dwoods828 this coming from a man who believes in imaginary gods and angels the level of your stupidity surpasses even the very book you think is the word of god.
TheHemsworthboy 2 months ago
@TheHemsworthboy I think atheists don’t think. I don’t think they think at all. I think if they thought to think they wouldn’t think the thoughts they think.
They must be not thinking pretty hard and staying up late at night not thinking because to some of this stuff simply defies reality.
I’m thinking that, somewhere, there is a atheist Not Think tank where atheists sit about all day, not thinking, and then send out random lack of thinking marching orders.
dwoods828 2 months ago
@dwoods828 You're such a poet. I'm going to seek out, let's say five fence-sitting theists and make it my life's work to make them see the godless truth through the theocratic haze, dwoods828, and I'm going to credit you as my inspiration. You venomous troll.
Ersa1a 2 months ago
@dwoods828 Either you are just plain stupid or you are a troll. Maybe you are a stupid troll!
GodlessHappyAndFree 2 months ago
@dwoods828 I don't feel like tolerating theist bullshit today you religitard cunt. Fuck you and fuck that monster you worship. You're not hurting Hitchens' feelings. His great mind is no more and the cancer addled meatsack that carried that mind is on a gurney in a Houston hospital or morgue. Who you hurt, you vile brown-noser of invisible judges, is the people, still living, who this man meant something to. Good for you - you and those like you have redoubled my hatred for religion.
Ersa1a 2 months ago
@dwoods828 Go fuck yourself.
SissingPyd 2 months ago
Who is Christopher Hitchens?
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
@DMSProduktions i would struggle to describe him with how many letters i can write in a youtube comment you would be better of researching him on a neutral website, wikipedia would be a good place to start.
TheHemsworthboy 2 months ago
@TheHemsworthboy That doesn't answer my question! A few words like ' he did such and such' would have been enuff. I wasn't after a complete dissertation on the man!
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
@DMSProduktions Your question does not deserve an answer. If you can't be arsed to do the most basic bit of research such as pasting the name into Google you're just trolling, and to do so about a man who has just died is tasteless in the extreme.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
@MartinJWillett Martin! There is NO need to talk to me like that, we've always had pleasant exchanges.
YOU got my questioning all wrong!
All I asked was WHO he was, no need to go postal mate!
I know you may be upset at his death but to accuse me of trolling a dead man is uncalled for Martin!
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
@DMSProduktions The point stands, it should be clear from the context that Christopher Hitchens was important to me and I assume to many other people too. After his death was announced to ask baldly who is he (present tense) is likely to be taken to be tasteless. If you had wanted to avoid offending people you should have either researched first, it only takes seconds these days, or at the very least made some concession to admit that you are embarrassed not to know.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
@MartinJWillett Thats WHY I asked!
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
@DMSProduktions He was one of the Four Horsemen, one of the most influential public atheists, leader of the new atheists, the finest mass debater of the age. He was a master baiter of the theologically infected. A man of wit and a coiner of bon mots of the same class as Oscar Wilde. He had the brain, heart and liver of a journalist, he was employed as a columnist and he found fame as an essayist, pamphleteer and shit stirrer. He took on Saddam Hussein, Kissinger, Mother Theresa and God. And won.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
@MartinJWillett Great! Thanks, he sounded like a fine intellectual.
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
@DMSProduktions Some atheist who as i can tell martin treats like a god....
BritianIsFull 2 months ago
@BritianIsFull Ahh THANK you! Thats ALL I wanted to know!
Martin could have said that but NO he had to spray vitriol at me for asking a legitimate question!
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
@DMSProduktions More to the point, who are you?
osamabinlid666 2 months ago
@osamabinlid666 I Didnt ask you!
DMSProduktions 2 months ago
There is no judging Christ, therefore Chris is resting peacefully no doubt. There is however an afterlife alright, but it's completely unrelated to the religions we've created for comfort. Life goes on without a body, the mind/spirit survives, so there really is no death. Death/dead is just a word, it's basically meaningless, so Chris is still with us watching.
reclaimerReclaimer 2 months ago
@reclaimerReclaimer No, he isn't. He is dead.
MsMommaRose 2 months ago
@reclaimerReclaimer This is not reassuring anybody or correcting their misapprehensions, it is annoying. Please don't do it.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
@MartinJWillett Well said. The only existence after death is in the memories of the living. In that respect, Hitch will be with us for as long as people read his books. Of all modern writers, Christopher Hitchens deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with Plato.
SissingPyd 2 months ago
@SissingPyd He's still with many people who saw and heard enough of him to imagine him. He's with me right now, patiently helping me with my words, quietly annoyed at my slow typing speed. I don't mean that in any way he is still here just that I can imagine him, he can still narrate his words to me, and sometimes he will even deign to read out some of mine. He's been doing that for me for about two years now, being dead won't change that.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
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@reclaimerReclaimer Why shouold anyone be interested in a bunch of claims that you make without provideing any evidence or reason for believing that?
topperheartramada 2 months ago
Oh no! A great loss. I had a feeling he would last a bit longer, but sadly not it seems. I was only watching an interview of his yesterday.
rahotep101 2 months ago
A man not easily replaced or succeeded...and someone I will dearly miss. His keen wit and intellect were a beacon in a sea of ignorance and stupidity.
Hereticalable 2 months ago
Thank you for sharing. I had no idea about this. A great loss. His message lives on.
ZenAmbient 2 months ago
If it weren't for hitch I'd never have come upon mr. Willet's channel. Or would have been much less likely to anyway.
SmelOdies 2 months ago
Hitchens WILL be forgotten and he was one of the world's notorious fools!
dwoods828 2 months ago
@dwoods828 relish it as much as you wish but your envy and petty hatred will never obscure what he stood for.
joseffritzlismydaddy 2 months ago
I don't "relish" anyone damned to eternal separation from God...You should wise up and quit worshiping his beliefs...He IS NOT resting in peace if he did not accept Christ prior to death...
dwoods828 2 months ago
@dwoods828 dead people don't rest. they're dead
OotoriJaz 2 months ago 2
@dwoods828 Where ever he is, he certainly made this world a far better better place than millions of you ever did or will.
joseffritzlismydaddy 2 months ago 2
@dwoods828 Christ ? Wasn't he a Jewish hippie who got nailed to boards ?
bucksmasher1 2 months ago
@dwoods828" Worshiping his beliefs" nobody worshiped Hitchens, why do you theists think that an opposite view to yours is some how a faith based religion ? is it the only way you can define the world around you, that because you base everything on faith and worship so does everyone else.
Hitchens unlike religion based his beliefs not on faith but on present facts available to him.
Why would he accept a "God" when he spent his life arguing against the silly idea of a god existing.
THEscifiguy100 2 months ago 2
@dwoods828 Nice to see some of that christian love at work, You are the fool and the reason why Christopher Hitchens spoke out against religion, your not enlightened just filled with hate and fear, and that is all religion is based on fear, and hatred of those who see it for what it is a CON !!!!!
VindicatorReturns 2 months ago
@dwoods828 Mmmmm feel that hate, let it grow. With a bit more practice you could be a muslim or roman catholic.
SissingPyd 2 months ago
He is resting in peace, or something like that.
155shield 2 months ago
I feel so sorry! he was a great thinker and journalist
dubi186 2 months ago
I have spent the morning drinking scotch and smoking cigarettes in his honour.
HitMeQuick 2 months ago 3
@HitMeQuick I'll also be having a scotch in his honour. I'll go for quality, Johnny Walker Black Label..
joseffritzlismydaddy 2 months ago
@HitMeQuick I'm drinking Johnny Walker Black label right now. His death hit me hard...
GodlessHappyAndFree 2 months ago
His body might have shut down, and his mind is missing from the universe but that doesn't stop us from carrying on his message. A message i feel is vital for the survival of our species, christians and muslims have their prophets but this was a man who was no prophet, but brought a message to this planet greater than any supposed son or messenger of god, like carl sagan and charles darwin before him an intellectual giant among men.
TheHemsworthboy 2 months ago 17
Indeed. Seldom has a person died like this, at the height of his game, with the world watching and waiting for him to show weakness.
Ah well, must go, I have a life to live. I am glad I read his last (?) book Hitch 22 before his death. I am not very good on having dead heroes, but life has a way of ensuring that we all get to play that game eventually. At least I don't revel in it like so many do.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago 6
a painful bit of news.
wp4866 2 months ago
Mr. Hitchens is not looking down on us from "heaven", or "roasting in hell" for his disbelief. His body, his fierce pitbull of an intellect are no more. However, his writings, the videos he's been featured in, the difference he made on this planet live on. The world is a little bit safer for the non-believer because of the efforts he made - and the abuse he took. Cheers to your memory, Hitch. Thanks Martin.
Ersa1a 2 months ago 2
@Ersa1a It feels as though we have lost a friend.
MsMommaRose 2 months ago
@MsMommaRose I came back here to reply to your kind words and got caught up attacking trolls. Hitchens was very inspirational tome. The world has lost a great mind.
Ersa1a 2 months ago
@Ersa1a The trolls are in hyperdrive.
MsMommaRose 2 months ago
What do you mean, can you elaborate about what you said, about R.I.P?
GrainSandful 2 months ago
@GrainSandful there is nothing that is resting....the eternity of nothingness before him is now again
lyntonio 2 months ago
@lyntonio Oh thats very profound,... thank you made me think deep!!
GrainSandful 2 months ago
@GrainSandful well u would have to be living under a rock if u didn't know Hitch didn't believe in an afterlife or a b4 life, to say RIP is to say he exist elsewhere resting peacefully!!!!!! what else could it mean?
lyntonio 2 months ago
@GrainSandful Look for my video with that title.
MartinJWillett 2 months ago
:(
ozmucur 2 months ago
One of the greatest men this island has produced, atheism and reason has lost one of their finest proponents. A sad day.
greeny202a 2 months ago